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Fedora 27 Released (fedoramagazine.org)

Posted by msmash on from the new-Linux-distros dept.

The Fedora Project has announced the general availability of Fedora 27 Workstation and Fedora 27 Atomic editions. Fedora 27 brings with it "thousands of improvements" from both the Fedora Community and various upstream software projects, the team said on Tuesday. From a post on Fedora Magazine: The Workstation edition of Fedora 27 features GNOME 3.26. In the new release, both the Display and Network configuration panels have been updated, along with the overall Settings panel appearance improvement. The system search now shows more results at once, including the system actions. GNOME 3.26 also features color emoji support, folder sharing in Boxes, and numerous improvements in the Builder IDE tool. The new release also features LibreOffice 5.4.

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  1. Re:Systemd, DBUS, Pulseaudio, and Gnome3 by iggymanz · · Score: 2, Informative

    fine if you're running a laptop or home pc

    for those of us who administor hundreds of machines, we've found systemd to be unpredictable, unreliable, and needlessly complex garbage

  2. Re:Which is better by freak0fnature · · Score: 3, Informative

    It depends on what you want to do. Steam games generally get full support for Ubuntu first, less so on Fedora. I can play TF2 natively, but both Portal games crash on me. But if you ask my boss, he would say that debian packaging is superior to RPM especially when dealing with dependency issues.

  3. Re:Why is this on Slashdot? by jfdavis668 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's a technology story. Far more relevant than the story about Germany burning too much coal.

  4. Re:Which is better by CronoCloud · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Fedora equivalent to Ubuntu LTS would be the official Red Hat releases or CentOS.

  5. Re: Which is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    No, they are not equivalent. RHEL/CentOS require a ton of third party repositories to be even somewhat useful whereas on Ubuntu most things just work (like it does in Fedora). That's also one of the annoying things about writing rpm packages. Even something as simple as (some parts of) Qt requires you to tell the user to install third party repositories or that you include your own copy of Qt in your rpm... Bonkers. Fedora source RPM is easier than universal source deb, which is much easier than universal source RPM.

  6. Re: Which is better by Wdomburg · · Score: 3, Informative

    It is documented in their release schedule:

    "We say maintained for approximately 13 months because the supported period for releases is dependent on the date the release under development goes final. As a result, Release X is supported until one month after the release of Release X+2.

    This translates into:
    Fedora 26 will be maintained until 1 month after the release of Fedora 28.
    Fedora 27 will be maintained until 1 month after the release of Fedora 29."

    If you want more stability, there's CentOS, which has a new release every 3-4 years, but will provide updates for 10 years. The core release doesn't have the latest software, but that is what Software Collections are for.